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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
MOTHERS COOKING.
BY H. c. DODGE

Italian French and German cooks, and Yankee
ones beside
Tosatisfy my appetite alas, have vafnly tried,
tol all thelr skill and knowledge, backed by lots
Cal not produce such cooking as my mother
used to do.
Hel pumpkin, mince and apple pies two inches
thick at least,
Are still to me in memory a sweet, perpetual
feast
Her Puddingss, bread and biscuit pure and
nghter than the snow,
dream about, but never eat no matter where
go.
make,
Think her home made crullers nearly. always
took the cake.
I yet tan see her making them her hands with
While round her stood us children small, a
Watching with delight
Beside the stove an earthen pot stood ready to be
crowned
With Gullers in fantastic shapes and beautifully
drowned;
But till four naughty boys were filled, who
hooked EN- smoking hot,
Dear, PATIENT mother toiled in vain to fill the
culler pot
She'd make us each cruller man, with legs
and arms and head
Which we like little cannibals, deyoured up in
bed;
And in the mornings early, while the rest were
fat asleep,
Four little ghosts in night gowns to the cruller
pot would creep.
Don't talk to me of cooking. There is none in
allthe earth
That car compare with mothers Now realize
its worth;
And quite often in my reyeres her crullers taste
again,
And scramble with my brothers for those funny
cruller men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
WISCONSIN LEGTsL4TURE.
Senate,

Senate.
MADISON, March l1-The Senate bill to
incorporate the city of Rchland Center
was concurred in The bill to punish any
person who shall knowingly make traffic
or sell cleo butter, butterine, or any imita-
ton butter or cheese without making the
same known to buyer or consumer, by i'm
prisonment in the county Jail for not more
than 80 days, or by fine not to exceed
$50, was passed. Twenty-six bills were
indefinitely postponed. Among these were
bills 30 incorporate the city of Mondovi
and city of Wauwatosa; to change the rate
OF interest in redeeming lands sold for tax
es from % to Is per cent: tc authorize
the commissioners OF public lands to lease
lands for mining purposes; to authorize
the Hurley Street Railway Company to
lay and maintain a street railway in Hur-
ley; 10 create the county of Rusk; to cause
the ABUNDANT general to publish 5000
copies OF the roster OF Wisconsin Volun-
teers complete; to decrease the salaries of
county boards from So to $3.50 per day.
MADISON, March 15.-The senate bill
vas concurred in appropriating to
the Wisconsin Dairymens Association 81,
600 TO cover the years 1SS7-S. The bill to
abolish the civil Jurisdiction OF the Dodge
county court and to amend certain Sec
tons OF the revised statutes which was
non-concurred in. The following bills were
passed Authorizing county boards OF su-
pervisors TO levy tax not exceeding one
fifth Of one mill to create fund for the re-
lief OF INDECENT soldiers, sailors and mar
ines, or those made dependent by the death
of such persons. The bill provides for the
appointment OF commissions of three to
use the money in Offering the relief to the
particular classes mentioned; appro-
priating the sum of $4,000 or SO much
thereof as may be required, to aid in
securing an exhibit of the condition and
work of the public schools of Wisconsin at
the national centenary school exposition
in Chicago in July. 1887, to regulate pawn
brokers, loan brokers, keepers OF loan OF.
ices, dealers in secondhand goods and
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
The Earthquake in Japan.
From the Boston Gazette.


A merchant of this city has just re-
ceived from distinguished American
lady in Yokohama a letter in which she
gives full details of the fearful earth
quake which occurred there on the 18th
OF last month. The lady was the guest
of q well known Judge, who with his
wife had just departed on visit to
the English mission in Toxic, leaving
his mansion occupied by his guest,
his children, and servants Her per-
sonal experience she thus graphically
describes: "We," meaning one of the
Judges daughters and herself, event
down into the library, leaving the
children in the nursery. In few
minutes I heard terrible noise.
What is that?' l asked of J. She re-
piled, San earthquake Then such
shaking, grooming, screeching, and
cracking. can hear it noW.) /
shrieked to J. to fly. :Oh! l can't!
can'tp Then the things were flying
about the room. The next l re-
member was in the hall-the panels of
the door flying after us. J. says I
took hold OF her and dragged her out,
but l have no recollection of it; but I
can never feel grateful enough to think
| was permitted to do it, for just as
we left the room q terrible crash came.
AS soon as / could think / shrieked
for the children. I feared they had
gone through with the wreck and were
killed, but soon had them all with
me, uninjured. You can,
perhaps, slightly imagine what had
to 60 through from fright and re-
sponsibility. The house is massive
brick one, three stories high. The
chimney is very large, and this fell
over, crashed through thereof, cutting
the beams, and down into the chamber
below, then to the library, carrying all
before it. Had we remained a. second
longer we should have been killed.
The next morning such sight! Moth
ing left of the attic rooms, and in the
bedroom a greater part of the floor,
with q brass bedstead hanging by it's
legs over the chasm."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
Mamma.

Sicily is the chief source of mamma;
in that country the trees are cultivated
in plantations, and when about eight
years old they begin to yield. Cuts an
inch and a half to two inches long are
made in the bark, cutting through to
the wood. One cut is made daily, be-
ginning near the bottom of the
trunk, with each succeeding cut about
an inch above the former one. The
thick, syrup like Juice exudes from the
cuts and hardens on the bark into
white spongy flakes, which when hard
enough are removed and dried still
further before they are packed for
commerce. 1t consists mainly of O.
form OF sugar called mantle, and has
mild, Laxative properties.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

astonished in this jubilee year that
she desires TO show the people of Eng
land how much she longs for support,
and that she still looks back to the
past. Is it any wonder if she wishes
to do honor to the man she loved SO
we'll? !"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
Care of the Eyes.
From the San Francisco Chronicle

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
The person who wishes to keep his
eye-sight good until late in life should
allow nothing irritating to get into
them. Ii in travelling, dust or cinders
getin, they should be carefully removed
as soon as possible afterward by the
application of water along the edge of
the closed lids, and by immersing the
eyes completely. This process should
be continued for several days In re-
atty, every one would do well to ap-
ply pure water to the edges of the
closed lids several times every day by
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

SAYS Frederick Locker: My friend,
Admiral E. E., shortly after his return
from a cruise, met an old acquaint-
ance In the streets Of, who said,
after the usual salutations had passed
"They tell me, Admiral. that, We had got
married ?" The Admiral, hoping for
q compliment, replied, "Why, Battle,
I'm getting on, I'm not so young as
was, you see, and none of the girls will
have me-" On which the Bailie, with
perfect good faith, and simplicity re-
piled. "Deed, admiral, I was ma ev.
enin' We to g. lassie, but there's mony
q fine respeckit, haKworn wumman
would be glad to take ye."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
PERSONALITIES.


CAPT. EADs leaves an estate worth
fully 100000.
CONGREssMAN BAENEs, of Georgia,
weighs $50 pounds.
JAY GOULD, Russell Sage, and CYRUS
w. Field do not use tobacco in any
form.
PRESIDENT GREvY, De Freycinet and
Leon Say are the best chess playersin
France.
The Abyssinian chieftain, Ras Alula,
Is thirty-fve years old, and is the son
OF q slave.
EX-EMPREss EUGENE is nursing
wounded Italian soldiers who have re-
turned to Naples from Massowah.
DIR. W: SEARLE, who attended Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher in his last ILL
ness, was formerly a prominent hon.
eopathlc physician in Troy.
AN autograph hunter cut the auto
graph Of w. D. Howells, the novelist,
cut OF the hotel register in Lowell,
Mass, the other day.
DIR. ROBERTSON, of New York, prac-
tlcee almost exclusively among theat-
rlcal people, and he is called ''the the.
atrlcal physician"
LORD TENNYsON's latest effort is a.
morning and evening hymn, dedicated
to the boys in the Gordon Home at
Portsmouth.
DIR. MCCosH hopes to remain at the
head of Princeton College until it be-
comes, in name and in fact, q full
fedged university.
FRANCIS MURPHY added 1000 con-
verts to his blue-ribbon cause in the
single town of Vincennes, Ind, which
boasts of only $4,000 inhabitants.
REPORT has it that Senator Ingalls,
still preserves the first fee he ever re-
celved as q lawyer, namely, q table
and q high desk, made by carpenter
client.
The widow of Garibaldi lives in q
quiet street ofTurin, the walls of her
little parlor covered with flags,
medals, and other mementoes of the
dead hero.
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY does not
believe that Queen Victoria owns real
estate in Washington as she would
have to pay taxes out of her own
pocket on it if she did.
Miss FLORENCE GRoFF is the first
American woman who has had the
honor OF being appointed a. pupil Of
the School for Oriental Languages
ARABIC and Persian) in Paris.
The late Professor Edward r. Sill
was a sophomore at Yale when John
Brown was hanged, and was one OF
the four students who on that occa-
| sion broke into the chanel and draned
it with mourning emblems.
ACCORDING to his OWE recital, Bishop
Bowman, of the M. E. Church, has on
~ been to the theater once. That was
to see Edwin Forrest. And he never
went to dance party but once. That
was IN his boyhood.
Most of his time Bronson Alcott
spends sitting in an easy chair by the
window. He cannot recognize any one
who passes by on the street. but sa-
lutes them all, SO as to be sure of not
neglecting an acquaintance.
CHARLES EMERSON, nephew of Ralph
Waldo, married a beautiful Bohemian
abroad, and probably would never
have returned to reside in America If
his wife had not met her husbands
uncle. "For two years." she said,
''we lived alone on the side of q noun
tain in Switzerland. One day heard
OF famous uncle of my husbands,
and [ wanted to see him. We went to
Paris, where he was staying, and ne
was sc kind, 80 polite, so good, I
wanted to go to his country, and we
came"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

WALL STREET men have a hobby for
81 900 watches. They have one dial
Cor the time of day, and four small
dials which Indicate the day of the
week, the day of the month, the month
OF the year, and the quarter of the
moon. A tiny gong sounds the hours
and half-hours.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

The most costly water-color in the
world is a work 10Y by 14115 by Meis-
sonier, illustrating g. horse soldier on
outpost duty. It is valued at So,
700.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23
THE DIFFERENCE
RY MANLEY H. PIKE.

When ATLANTA as the fable says,
Hard pressed in race the young Hippomenes,
To stay her swift pursuit he cast away
Apples of gold from the Hesperides.
Not so do young men of the present day
In whose possession golden fruit one sees:
They keep their apples-nice deccys these make
them
And lei their Atalantas oyertake them
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

One pound currants, one pound
bread crumbs, one-half pound raisins,
one pound euet chopped fine, four eggs,
one tablespoon brandy, sugar and nut
meg 30 taste, orange and lemon peel
can6iad
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-23

"ASu person mas no money on deposit TO
meet payment thereof; making it larceny
to take av ~ real property during tres.
pass
MADISON, March 15.-The following bills
were passed: To amend section 1924 of
the Revised Statutes of 1878, and to pro-
vide for appeals under said section; to
amend the Revised Statutes relating to
lodges. oranges. etc.; to amend the Revised
Statutes, entitled ''of guardians and
dies without will, the mother may name
the guardian OF her children in her will;
authorizing the licensing of the United
States Accident Association to do business
in the State on the plan of mutual insur-
ance on the payment of the usual taxes;
to amend the Revised Statutes, relating
to justices of the peace; relating to in
ebriates and habituel drunkards. 1t pro-
vides that any person who shall be con-
victed in any court in this State of
being all inebriate or habitual drunkard,
may be sentenced to imprisonment and
confinement in any lnebriate or insane
asylum in this State for term not exceed
ing two years; provided, however, that be-
fore such sentenc CO, some relative or friend
OF such inebriate or drunkard, shall
execute bond in the sum of one thousand
dollars, with sufficient surety to be ap-
proved by the courts, to the State OF Wis
cousin. conditioned that he will pay for
the support OF such drunkard or inebriate
during his Imprisonment and confinement
Assembly bills were concurred in: To
amend the charter of the city of Mayville;
for the government OF county asylums for
the chronic insane. 1t provides that the
county board may appoint a board oil
trustees who shall hold their Office three
years each. one being appointed each year.
Tor the control OF the county asylums.l
Bills were indefinitely postponed: Provid-
ing for the repeal OF the law creating the
bureau OF labor statistics.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
Crazed by Cigarettes.
,Special to Neacs and Courier.

SPARTANBURG, S. c., August 4
There was a case of cirgarette mania,
to the repression of which the best
efforts of the reporters of the Necs
and Courier and the Columbia Regis
ter have been called into requisition
at o'clock this morning.
The patient is q Mr. Plummer, who
lately married a beautiful bride from
Birmingham, the source Of all booms.
Mrs. Plummer called in the staff of
the Farmers City Bureau of the
Meacs and Courier to hold down her
maniac husband on a restless couch,
which was with some difficulty accom-.
plished.
A local physician added sufficient
hypodermic morphine to secure the
required result, and the patient, the
bride and the hotel are now awaiting
the next sensation. The Birmingham
bride speaks of the maniac as
Honey"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11

breath and dragged him out of the
office and carried him about 8 mile
from town, Culbreath begging most
piteously for mercy. Here, probably
thinking that Culbreath was near
deaths door, they again shot him
three or four more times and then
left him for dead on the roadside.
Some Of the citizens hearing the FIR
ing, went out in that direction and
met Culbreath making his way back
to the village. They assisted him to
a vehicle and took him to the jail,
where he received prompt medical
attention. He fingered through the
night in great agony, and died at 3
o'clock in the morning.
This is the crime with which up.
wards of thirty citizens Of Edgefeld
were charged. Among the prisoners
is Memphis Culbreath, son ot t1ea
murdered man. The murder was so
aggravated that public opinion de-
manded rigid investigation. This
was lad, with the result that the
present defendants we're arrested.
They remained in Jail at Edgefeld
for a short time, and then were bailed.
The case had been set for trial
three times, and on each occasion o
pastponement has been had.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
THE G.. n. & T.. ROAD.
A Survey Of Its Roadbed Shows 1t to
Be Unapproached by the Floods ana
Unaffected by the Rains.
Columbia Register, 5th.

Some time during yesterday it was
suggested to the authorities OF the
Columbia, Newberry and Laurens
road in this city by q gentleman who
resides on the Lexington side Of the
river, who had opposed the present
location, that it would be found that
the freshet in the Saluda had reached
and damaged the roadbed along It's
line.
With view to ascertaining the ex-
act facts in the case Captain lredell,
accompanied by the assistant engin-
eer of the road, Mr.. Wilson, left the
city by private conveyance early
Yesterday ayzfHt;5=zneon zft5=:znn and crossed to
the Lexington Fork on 5ss 6rosa ao.
River bridge. They traversed the
line of the road bed for nine miles
from the bridge, making a careful In
spection of every foot Of the road
over which they passed. They found
that st no point had the waters Of
the Saluda approached nearer than
about half mile to the road, and
that it had received no damage from
the recent heavy rains.
This is regarded as demonstra-
tion of the judicious location of the
roadbed and the stability of the work
done under the severest test to which
it is likely to be subjected.
It has also made patent that with
such route in operation there can
be no interruption Of travel or traffic
with the up-country by freshets, such
as the public have been subjected to
during the present floods in the rivers
which are crossing the existing
system.
If anything could establish the ne
cessity for this route and its value to
this city and the whole State the
present state of affairs resulting from
the high water in the Broad and Sa.
luda furnishes indubitable evidence
of the fact.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
The New Rules about Cotton Weights.

Owing to a new regulation of the
New York cotton exchange on and
after September 1st, 1887, cotton
buyers in all interior towns will de-.
duct from bales weighing under 400
pounds / cent per pound; under $50
pounds ! cent per pound; and pack
ages less than 800 pounds are not
considered bales, and are therefore
understandable. The ginners and
farmers will do we'll to note this fact
in putting up their cotton. They
will also find it to their interest to
increase the general average of their
-i5;ssles IS the heavy weight of bales
from the southwest; Is; II il: & addition ito to
the superior staple an additional in
ducement for northern and European
spinners to give their orders to that
section, This is an important mat.
ter to the ginners and farmers, and
should receive their attention.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
The Power. Of bis Eye.
Paris Letter.

A story is told of Van Amourg,
the great lion tanner, now dead. On:
one occasion, while in barrocm, he:
was asked how he got his wonderful
power over animals. He said /:
ut is by showing them that I'm
not the least afaid of them, and by
keeping my eye steadily OF theirs.
III give you an example ofthe power.
of my eye" Pointing to 9 foolish
fellow who was sitting opposite, Van
Amburg said: "You see that fel-
low? He is regular clown. I'll
make him come across the room
to me, and I won't say 8 VOID to-
him." Sitting down he fixed bis:
keen, steady eye Oh the man. Pres
emily the fellow Strengthened himself
gradually, got up and came across
to Van Anburg. When he got
close enough he drew back his arm
and struck the tanner q tremendous
blow under the chin, knocking him
clear over the chair, with the remark =
You'll stare at me like that again.,
won't you?''
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
Prohibition Defeated In Texas.

GALVESTON, August 5.-Returns
to the. Nescs received up to midnight:
last night from 440 polling precincts
clearly indicate that the prohibition
amendment is defeated by $4,000
votes. It will be impossible 70 give
tue exact result until the official
count shall have been made. The
result indicates that all the other
amendments, except the one extend;
ing the time for holding the legisla.
ture, have been carried.
The latest returns received here
from over 500 voting precincts clear,
ly indicate that the prohibition
amendment has been defeated by "a:
majority ranging from $4,000 to CO.,:
900. Enthusiastic anti-pTohibitions
lists claim this will be increased to-
$4,000.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
A Wicked Wretch.

Tue sleeping car experience of a
pretty young woman is thus related
in the department Of the american
Mo1azine where it is needless to say,
only true stories are placed: Il al
ways lie with my head very far front
and my feet near the wall. One
night I was awakened by some one
stepping on ms nose as it lay on the
pillow. You can imagine my wrath.
I never said word, but gave the
foot the most spiteful pinch, that
sent it up after its owner with an ex-
clamation point. The next day, he
a dspper young man-sat opposite
me all day, and, actually, the mean
thing never moved without iimping?
And it couldn't have hurt him that
bad, could it,"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
A BOYS CONFESSION.
He Shoots His Mother and Beheads
Her With an AK.

EATON, o., August 2.-John Beall,
thirteen years old, who has been in
jail six weeks on the charge OF killing
his motler, has made a confession to
the prosecuting attorney, sheriff and
an ex.sheriff. It was not written
down and the persons are secretive
about the details. On June 18th
this boy was at home alone with his
mother at q farm house, and about 4
o'clock alarmed the neighbors by
saying three tramps had killed his
mother; and that he was asleep, but
awakened in time to see them leave
with a watch and some money. The
watch has since been found in a
vault where the boy admits he threw
it. The 10y had shot his mother
twice and then nearly bebeaded her
with an ak. 1t is supposed he was
with the dead body three hours be-
fore giving the alarm. No motive
for his crime can be assigned except
that he was angry at what he seemed
to him to De evidences of fayoritism
shown to his sister by his mother.
On the day of the murder he ex-
pected to 60 to Eaton with his mother
and get new suit of clothes, but in
stead his father took his sister to
town, and thus he was left at home
with his mother.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-11
IT WAS SENATOR BROWN.
A Man Who Wants the Big Men of the
Country Labeled as Matter
Of Convenience.
From q Washington Letter.

Secretary Mosely, of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, was trying to
keep cool one sultry afternoon last
week, when meek looking old gen.
tleman, with long white beard aud
general ministerial air, entered and
INQUIRED FIR the clerk of the commits
sion.
Il am the secretary" said Mr..
Mosely. "What can do for you:"
The old gentleman said he would
like to get copy Of the long and
short haul decision. This was handed
him, the secretary wondering what
this country preacher wanted with it.
"You look warm" Mr.. Moseley
added. Wont you take seat near
the window and cool OFF,"
Thanks" was the reply; II don't
care if / do
After few moments silence the
old gentleman ventured to ask:
What part of the country are ycr
from?"
Il am a Yankee-come from Mas
sachusetts.'
Then his Yankee curiosity asserted
itself, and he said, Where do you
lire?"
In Georgia. was the reply.
"Are you interested in RAILROADS.&C.
Yes; l am president of one of
them. My name is Brown
care you any relative of old Sen
ator Joe Brown? I have always had
a desire to see him.
Yes am slightly related to him.
was the reply, land I might say that
am the gentleman himself
Mr.. Mosely now says that he
wishes public men would wear badges
to designate their Office.